A Variety Magazine Pick of 3 Books to Read If You Were Glued to the Elizabeth Holmes Documentary
Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion
with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios).
Now a #1 international bestseller, BILLION DOLLAR WHALE is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), revealing how a young social
climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history.
In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come
to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Over a decade, Low, with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, siphoned billions of dollars from an investment fund--right under the
nose of global financial industry watchdogs. Low used the money to finance elections, purchase luxury real estate, throw champagne-drenched parties, and even to finance Hollywood films like The
Wolf of Wall Street.
By early 2019, with his yacht and private jet reportedly seized by authorities and facing criminal charges in Malaysia and in the United States, Low had become an international fugitive, even as the
U.S. Department of Justice continued its investigation.
BILLION DOLLAR WHALE has joined the ranks of Liar's Poker, Den of Thieves, and Bad Blood as a classic harrowing parable of hubris and greed in the financial world.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
I highly recommend this rip-roaring story of brazen fraud..., political corruption..., and investment-banker callousness. —Adam Lashinsky, FORTUNE
Take
one chubby Malaysian business school graduate. Mix with Middle Eastern sheikhs
and greedy Southeast Asian politicians. Add Wall Street investment banks, law
firms and Swiss wealth managers. Then mix in superyachts, five-star hotels,
luxury apartments, nightclubs, models, A-list movie stars--and bathtubs of
champagne... [This] richly reported page-turner is meticulously pieced together
from interviews, documents and emails by Wall Street Journal reporters
Tom Wright and Bradley Hope. —Peter Thal Larsen, Reuters
Gripping.... The heist of the century. —Axios
An extraordinary tale.... richly woven...[with] dogged
reporting.... Like all good business stories, Billion Dollar Whale is
bigger than the immediate one it tells. It is a story of emerging markets
crippled by corruption and cronyism and comes from the era of egregious--and
mostly punishment-free--banking.... One thing is clear. If ever Hollywood gets
round to telling the story on screen, here is perfect material for the script. —Financial Times
Wright and Hope transform their
investigation of a mind-boggling financial fraud into a nonfiction thriller...
This is an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale. —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Well-researched and well-documented.... Reveals
how Low used a bag of tricks, including financial fraud, to make himself seem
more powerful, more influential, and more successful than he actually was... This
is a must-read. —Booklist
Compelling. —Minneapolis Star Tribune
A wonderful book... A rip-roaring, absolutely
delightful account of one of the biggest financial cons in the history of the
world.... If you liked Bad Blood, you might well enjoy Billion Dollar
Whale... An incredible story of a con artist at the height of his game. —David Plotz, Slate "Political Gabfest"
One of the most important books of 2018. —MoneyLaundering.com
[The] extraordinaire saga of Malaysian entrepreneur Jho Low [is] chronicled in juicy detail.... A mind-boggling picture of Low's thievery, grandiose spending and disappearance. —Financial Advisor
One of the best business books in a long time. —Brian Sullivan, CNBC
An amazing tale of greed.... juicy and
entertaining. —Library Journal (starred review)
The
story of a massive international financial scandal... As the authors amply
prove, the scandal reaches far beyond Low. To succeed, he relied on the naivete, greed, and generally immoral conduct of huge banks as well as corrupt
governments. —Kirkus
As Bad Blood is to biotech, Billion Dollar Whale is to international finance... a wonderful read... Thrilling. —Bill Gates
A Fortune magazine Best Book of 2018 —
A Financial Times Best Book of 2018 —
“As Bad Blood is to biotech, Billion Dollar Whale is to international finance…a wonderful read…Thrilling.” —Bill Gates
If you like global intrigue, financial crime, wealth
porn, and absurdity, Billion Dollar Whale, by Tom Wright and Bradley
Hope, is for you.... It almost seems made up. Still, anyone who has followed the
news out of Malaysia will know that the story is all too real. —The New Yorker
What a blast to
read! A true life thriller that reads like a Hollywood movie, Billion Dollar
Whale traces the exploits of the most mercurial, mysterious big player in
history. Jho Low is Gatsby with twice the bank
account and ten times the ambition, and the stories surrounding his
exploits leap right off the page! —Ben Mezrich, New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down The House
Even the most
skilled fiction writer would have trouble conjuring the corrupt and colorful
protagonist of Billion Dollar Whale. Bradley Hope and Tom Wright's
gripping portrait of Jho Low and his enablers throughout the global financial
system will both fascinate and enrage you. —Sheelah Kolhatkar, staff writer at The New Yorker and New York Times bestselling author of Black Edge
This story of a Wharton graduate who carried out the
$5 billion swindle known as 1MDB offers a textbook case of financial fraud in
the modern age. —New York Times
An incredible story.... If you need some billionaires to despise--look no further than these charlatans. —Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit
Wright and Hope
deliver a scintillating and prodigiously reported tale of a globe-spanning
modern Gatsby and his audacious fraud. —Jesse Eisinger, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for ProPublica and author of The Chickenshit Club
“Global intrigue, financial crime, wealth porn, and absurdity…It almost seems made up. Still, anyone who has followed the news out of Malaysia will know that the story is all too real.” —New Yorker
“A textbook case of financial fraud in the modern age.” —New York Times
“Wall Street Journal reporters Wright and Hope tell the story of a massive international financial scandal they initially exposed in the newspaper in 2015, reporting that made them finalists for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize…A strength of this account is the authors’ explication of how Malaysian culture and politics helped enable Low to carry out his schemes.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Billion Dollar Whale proves once again that truth is stranger than fiction.” —Gregory A. Coleman, retired FBI special agent
Tom Wright is an author and practicing psychologist. He received his doctorate from Texas A&M University.
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Author Bio: Bradley Hope
Bradley Hope, based in London, is the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billion Dollar Whale, and covers finance and malfeasance for the Wall Street Journal. Before
that he spent six years as a Middle East correspondent. Hope is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and Gerald Loeb Award winner.
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Author Bio: Tom Wright
Tom Wright is an author and acclaimed journalist. He was one of the first journalists to arrive at the scene of the raid in which Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden. In 2013, he spearheaded
coverage of the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh, which killed over 1,000 people, earning the Wall StreetJournal a Sigma Delta Chi award from The Society of
Professional Journalists. He is a Pulitzer finalist, a Loeb winner, and has garnered numerous awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia, which in 2016 named him “Journalist of the Year.” He
speaks English, Malay, French and Italian.
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Hachette Books
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ISBN:
9781549145520
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Adult
Language:
English
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